Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni

Arkansas governor Benjamin Travis Laney named October 15, 1948, the state's first annual Poetry Day due to her efforts.

During the middle of the 1920s, Marinoni wrote poems quickly and her writing was published around 60 times during the beginning of her career.

[2][1] Marinoni founded a northwest Arkansas chapter of the National League of American Pen Women.

[2] Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller proclaimed October 15 as Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Day in 1969.

After Antonio died in 1944, Marinoni married again in 1946 to a faculty member of the University of Arkansas named Luigi Passarelli.